Hello to everyone on this lovely forum! I've been a big fan of corsair ever since I got into computer building. It seems like everything they make is really nice. Ok, now. Let me start off by saying I am VERY picky. some requirements:
1: Has to be a closed water cooling (for looks, super huge for me. it could perform 2x and would only be worth a penny to me)
2: WHITE themed. soon to add green LED case fans
3: I need the 3770k, so don't go all i5y on me.
4: I'm iffy on the GPU. I'd like to fiddle with adobe some so I kinda want cuda, but idk. :/
5: BUDGET. Hugeeeeee thing of course. My budget is 1530$ including a 200$ monitor and a 30$ mouse mat. (already have a mouse and kb [Mouse is NAOS 3200, fuckin' love it, excuse my french. KB is a 5$ rosewill, lol)
Ok, finally, What I have so far. Everything's gotta be from corsair and preferable white or black, with cold accent (ie the mobo) I'm open to suggestions:
CPU: i7 3770k (Hopefully OC'd to 4.5-4.6GHZ stable with only a tiny bit over stock for the voltage)
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 670 (just the standard one, 379.99 on newegg)
MOBO: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
RAM: 2X4GB Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 1600MHZ CL9 (9-9-9-24) (White heatsync)
PSU: Corsair builder series 600W (CX600)
CASE: Corair C70
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i
STORAGE: WD Blue 500GB 7200RPM 6gb/s (I don't want or need an ssd, I'll buy one later if they get cheap)
And that's what I got. Might buy a couple Corsair fans for the case and a couple cooler master green LED fans for the side panel slots later. +I'll be upgrading the PSU to like an XFX850w and another 670 and 2 more monitors in may or july. I'm confused on what GPU to buy mostly, or if the Kraken X60 really is THAT much better. I like that corsair returns parts that get leaked on (I think, lol) +general corsair quality. Any info on the krakens warranty? GPU advice? This system will be used for gaming, video rendering, and general web browsing. don't need an optical drive, friend is lending me his and a (totally not pirated) windows 7 disc for install. that's all I'd need it for. I don't use up much storage either so 500gb should be plenty.
quick edit, just in case, here are links to all the parts (ignore the xigwhatever fans, they're for my friend) http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=16642034 :)
Also, My reaction to this website being 10x better tham tomshardware and gets 100x less traffic: http://i.imgur.com/G3E4q.gif